[Herbalist] Re: Herbalist digest, Vol 1 #101 - 2 msgs

[Charlotte de Courseilles]

>Black walnuts range up to tennis-ball-sized, green and sort of
>nubbly-smooth to start.  They age (rot) to a dark blackish-brown.  There is
>an outside hull surrounding a very hard nut.  The tree has a lobed compound
>leaf (many small leaves making up one large one somewhat like a round-lobed
>palm tree frond).

thank you, everyone!  thanks to you all, I've just realized that that
unknown tree in my backyard is a black walnut :)  they all went to waste
this year (no wonder our yard is overrun by squirrels) but I'll be
collecting and saving them next year.

Charlotte
in the Barony of Lion's Gate, Kingdom of An Tir